[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 08/10] eal: add minimum viable code for eal on windows

[Anand Rawat]

On 4/2/2019 3:39 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> I think the change below is bad because it is exposing an internal
> function in a header file which may be included by apps.
> I know you are still looking for pthread integration solutions,
> so we can discuss how to fix it later.
> 
> Note that there is already an EAL function to create normal threads:
> 	rte_ctrl_thread_create()
> You may want a similar function for dataplane threads perhaps.
> 
> 

Yes, we can work on removing eal_thread_create and substituting it
with rte_ctrl_thread_create. We have been able to macro substitute
quite a lot of pthread lib functionality with Microsoft libc. I can 
start looking into porting those functionalities for 
rte_ctrl_thread_create() on Windows.

-- 
Anand Rawat